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[idella4]

I'm doing an install of a new gentoo 64 from a 64 host, a non gentoo. but never mind. However, I'm trying something new,
and it may be a little odd. Looking at virtualisation, I discovered the practice of installing on to an image file.

Ceate an image file with dd if=... of=.... So I have done so.
Then mount it mount -o loop file /mnt/gentoo64.

I've done quite a few gentoo installs. I've got started on it, I'm suspicious it's not going to work out.

A few regular packages have failed to complete an emerge. I'm not going to post them on portage,
I don't think it belongs. Anyone tell me whether this is the cause of failed emerges. In a fresh install
there is little excuse for failed emerges. Should all go in. It's not mounted by regular mount /dev/....
so it hasn't a /dev root. I've not used logival volume partitioning before but that may offer a fix
logical partition is still a partition like a regular partition and has a /dev/file.
The emerging I've done can just be bundled up in a tar and shifted easily enough.

It's done routinely in creating and installing virtual machines but just how I don't know. Virtual machine
creation is very specialised. It just works, so the manage to install a regular dvd or iso image distro,
not a full compile gentoo style. Significant difference.
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[comprookie2000]

Neddy took the live dvd and installed it, here is what he did;
http://dev.gentoo.org/~neddyseagoon/HOWTO.xml
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